Farm Ballads
Will Carleton
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Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to Boston. - Summary by Carolin (1 hr 44 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 2:38 | Read by Mayah |
| Betsey and I Are Out. | 5:35 | Read by Robert Robinson |
| How Betsey and I Made Up. | 5:16 | Read by Robert Robinson |
| Gone with a Handsomer Man. | 5:41 | Read by Kim Gibbs |
| Johnny Rich. | 6:42 | Read by tovarisch |
| Out of the Old House, Nancy. | 5:27 | Read by Robert Robinson |
| Over the Hill to the Poor-House. | 6:39 | Read by Kim Gibbs |
| Over the Hill from the Poor-House. | 4:58 | Read by Robert Robinson |
| Uncle Sammy. | 4:40 | Read by RussellEric |
| Tom was Goin' for a Poet. | 3:23 | Read by Abigail Johnston |
| Goin' Home To-Day. | 3:09 | Read by BettyB |
| Out o' the Fire. | 6:27 | Read by Will Dodd |
| The New Church Organ. | 3:48 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Editor's Guests. | 9:51 | Read by Robert Robinson |
| The House where We were Wed. | 1:35 | Read by Paul Aihe |
| Our Army of the Dead. | 3:02 | Read by Paul Aihe |
| Apple-Blossoms. | 1:25 | Read by Abigail Johnston |
| Apples Growing. | 1:21 | Read by Abigail Johnston |
| One and Two. | 2:23 | Read by Kim Gibbs |
| The Fading Flower. | 2:00 | Read by Abigail Johnston |
| Autumn Days. | 1:17 | Read by David Lawrence |
| Death-Doomed. | 6:22 | Read by tovarisch |
| Up the Line. | 1:50 | Read by David Lawrence |
| How we Kept the Day. | 9:15 | Read by tovarisch |